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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COLDNESS, n.
1. Want of heat; as the coldness or water or air. When the heat or temperature of any substance is less than that of the animal body exposed to it, that state or temperature is called coldness.
2. Unconcern; indifference; a frigid state of temper; want of ardor, zeal, emotion, animation, or spirit; negligence; as, to receive an answer with coldness; to listen with coldness.
3. Want of apparent affection, or kindness; as, to receive a friend with coldness.
4. Coyness; reserve; indifference; as, to receive addresses with coldness.
5. Want of sensual desire; frigidity; chastity.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" [syn: cold, coldness]
2: a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" [syn: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness]
3: the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness] [ant: heat, high temperature, hotness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see cold I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coldness Cold"ness, n. The state or quality of being cold.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see cold

Moby Thesaurus

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